Investigators from Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, led by engineering professor Brian W. Pogue, published how parts of the blue light known as the Cherenkov Effect can be measured and used to make therapies safer and more effective.

Adjunct Professor of Engineering Eugene Demidenko introduced a new bioinformatics concept called Gene Rank which reflects how well a particular gene is connected to other genes—similar to the PageRank system used by Google.